Biography
SANTA DADS
“We, The
Santa Dads, create music through voice, multivocular technique,
ukulele, trumpet, and the occasional French horn and organ. We create
to express our philosophical, metaphysical, scientific, and religious
understandings; more specifically, our perceptions, conceptions, and
experience of existence, time, information theory, and the spirits.
Namely, we are Joshua Kelberman & Connor Kizer.
We are based in Baltimore, MD and are founding
members of Wham City, a friendly collective of artists. Since April
2005, we have played numerous shows in Baltimore and have toured
repeatedly throughout the east, west, north, and south of the United
States with Dan Deacon, Video Hippos and Ecstatic Sunshine.
We love and praise The Anima Mundi, The Blind
Elemental Forces, The Father, The Mother, The Son, The Daughter, The
Spirits, The Stars, The Planets, The Plants, The Animals, The Minerals,
and all fellow Humans, et al, ad
infinitum.” - The Santa Dads
Santa Dads are an exercise in the absurd at the same time they are an
exorcise of love and demons. They have startled many an audience with
their costume and unusual demeanor, only to hook their hearts in the
end with songs like “You Don’t Know” and “Open Portals”, messages full
of profundity and passionate confusion over this everyday world. They
are an anomaly derivative of Dada and enamored with Ween. There truly
is no other like the Santa Dads.
As legend has it, the band was thus named by
Dan Deacon in 2005. Dan had a habit of adding fake band names to
fliers he made. One of these names was “Santa Dads”. When Connor and
Joshua inquired about who Santa Dads were, Dan bestowed upon them:
“You are.” And so, the band began. The legend is truth.
Santa Dads’ album, ANIMA MUNDI, marks the
beginning of WILDFIRE WILDFIRE RECORDS’ discogrpaphy at WFWF001. We
are proud parents of Dads.
WFWF001 - Anima Mundi CD
RELEASED: APRIL 2007Includes a 12-panel fold out comic of Santa Dads' hyjinks and lyrics by Dina Kelberman.
SANTA DADS have toured the USA with Dan Deacon,
Video Hippos, OCDJ and Ecstatic Sunshine, as well as being participants
in the Baltimore Round Robin tours. They have also gone on several
tours to Mexico.
“We, The
Santa Dads, create music through voice, multivocular technique,
ukulele, trumpet, and the occasional French horn and organ. We create
to express our philosophical, metaphysical, scientific, and religious
understandings; more specifically, our perceptions, conceptions, and
experience of existence, time, information theory, and the spirits.
Namely, we are Joshua Kelberman & Connor Kizer.
We are based in Baltimore, MD and are founding
members of Wham City, a friendly collective of artists. Since April
2005, we have played numerous shows in Baltimore and have toured
repeatedly throughout the east, west, north, and south of the United
States with Dan Deacon, Video Hippos and Ecstatic Sunshine.
We love and praise The Anima Mundi, The Blind
Elemental Forces, The Father, The Mother, The Son, The Daughter, The
Spirits, The Stars, The Planets, The Plants, The Animals, The Minerals,
and all fellow Humans, et al, ad
infinitum.” - The Santa Dads
Santa Dads are an exercise in the absurd at the same time they are an
exorcise of love and demons. They have startled many an audience with
their costume and unusual demeanor, only to hook their hearts in the
end with songs like “You Don’t Know” and “Open Portals”, messages full
of profundity and passionate confusion over this everyday world. They
are an anomaly derivative of Dada and enamored with Ween. There truly
is no other like the Santa Dads.
As legend has it, the band was thus named by
Dan Deacon in 2005. Dan had a habit of adding fake band names to
fliers he made. One of these names was “Santa Dads”. When Connor and
Joshua inquired about who Santa Dads were, Dan bestowed upon them:
“You are.” And so, the band began. The legend is truth.
Santa Dads’ album, ANIMA MUNDI, marks the
beginning of WILDFIRE WILDFIRE RECORDS’ discogrpaphy at WFWF001. We
are proud parents of Dads.
WFWF001 - Anima Mundi CD
RELEASED: APRIL 2007Includes a 12-panel fold out comic of Santa Dads' hyjinks and lyrics by Dina Kelberman.
SANTA DADS have toured the USA with Dan Deacon,
Video Hippos, OCDJ and Ecstatic Sunshine, as well as being participants
in the Baltimore Round Robin tours. They have also gone on several
tours to Mexico.
